Speeches by Tufnell.

“David, do you have any views on that?”

“I just have a final point, on consumer representation within the water companies. We have the Water (Special Measures) Bill coming through Parliament. I would be interested to hear your views about what further steps we could take. You have talked about the importance of hearing that voice within the industry. Clearly,…”

“Are you satisfied with the changes announced by the Government to the guaranteed standards scheme?”

“David, you have talked about the investment aspect for companies, and we have talked about the rate of return. What are water companies doing to improve their customers’ experience? That often gets missed when we are talking more generally about the industry as a whole.”

“Tom, would you accept what Mike has just set out about how outages and supply issues often impact the most vulnerable in our society?”

“Are water companies sufficiently supported when those incidents happen?”

“There is an increase in sewage flooding the water supply, which presumably has a big impact on customers.”

“We have touched on investment, and I was wondering whether, Mike, you could talk about the changing opinions towards water companies over time, and the main drivers of those opinions.”

“I just wondered if you could expand a bit more on the engagement that you expect to see between both Governments, following on from the announcement in September, in terms of those partnerships between Welsh and UK Government, and that interaction between the health boards and the trust, and what that engagement looks …”

“What I am trying to get at is that the responsibility for implementation lies with the health board or the trust. For instance, Welsh Government invested £3.4 million in training more radiologists, in terms of driving down those waiting times, but there has been a report by Audit Wales that found that some NHS bodies h…”

“I mean in terms of a cross-border perspective. We have talked about it in terms of the agreement within the new partnership. The Secretary of State announced in September that the ambition for this new partnership will be to drive down NHS waiting lists on both sides of the border. I wanted to ask what that looked like…”

“What kind of contingencies do you have in place in respect of managing that risk?”

“That is nature-friendly farming, effectively? You want people to come into those schemes and then within those schemes, you set up those 16 objectives, and that is what you define as nature-friendly farming?”

“More generally, the aim is to support 65% or 80% nature-friendly farming and farmers have to adopt it on at least 10% to 15%. What do we understand as nature-friendly farming? I appreciate that you have set out those 16 objectives and you are saying that you will have objectives within those, like your specifically def…”

“To be clear, when you say the market will act, do you mean effectively those farms will no longer be viable and go out of business?”

“The Infrastructure and Projects Authority highlighted the external factors that are presenting risks. I appreciate there has been a lot of change. For context, I think it is September 2023, but if you could speak to that. It also highlighted the need to sharpen your future plans to ensure that the programme stays on tr…”

“Obviously confidence and perception are important for buy-in and Jonathan talked about the range of stuff that you have been doing to try to get that moving. Is that in response to what the report was saying, particularly about in October 2023 only 35% of farmers being confident in DEFRA’s ability to deliver the scheme…”

“We touched on the 1% productivity improvement and you talked about diversification, capital versus income, then looked at soil health and animal health. If one in nine farms are looking to find more than 10% improvement, and we have been in this process of BPS since Brexit, is that 1% productivity improvement over that…”

“I am grateful for the opportunity to speak in this debate. The Crown Estate sits as one of the more peculiar features of our society—King George III’s surrender to Parliament in 1760 has now morphed into a corporate body that submits 88% of its profits to the Treasury, with 12% remaining with His Majesty. It does not s…”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Efford. I am grateful to my hon. Friend the Member for Truro and Falmouth (Jayne Kirkham) for expressing so eloquently the challenges we face in the Celtic sea. I would point to the work that we have been doing in our all-party group for the Celtic sea to look at th…”